Please man,” can be heard in a video that surfaced of Minneapolis officers kneeling on black man neck during an arrest which ultimately ended in his death.
The man was George Floyd and can be heard begging for his life for several minutes as the officer knelt down on the man’s neck during the arrest and kept his knee there for some time after Floyd stopped moving.
This incident has drawn comparison to the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died in 2014 in New York after he was placed in a chokehold by police and pleaded for his life and this case is currently under investigation by the FBI and state law enforcement authorities.
In Minneapolis, kneeling on a suspect’s neck is allowed under the department’s use-of-force policy for officers who have received training in how to compress a neck without applying direct pressure to the airway.
BNC has requested the video and documentation of the incident but was informed by the Minneapolis Police Department that our request could not be completed at this time.
